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Don’t believe everything you read on Social Media

About a week ago a good friend of mine who is an ‘activist’ shared a news story with her Facebook friends. She was absolutely disgusted by what she had read in the post that had been sent to her, and she wanted all of her social media friends to “spring …

All in my back yard…

If you take a walk through the woods in behind my house, before long you’ll come across a large concrete pipe winding its way among the trees. It’s old, covered with a layer of moss in places, but still remarkably intact. In some places, it lies directly on the forest …

Landscape, Adventure and Home

Coming to know my country by being present in the landscape of my adventure brought far more than scenery. Having grown up on the Prairies in a tourist-farming-fishing town along Lake Winnipeg I came to understand its different landscape cultures. There are the fisher people who spent all seasons on …

Newborn…

Newborn… Sandra noticed a deer laying down in a corner of our garden yesterday. Thinking she was just taking a nap, Sandra went about her business. A short while later, she noticed that the deer was still there – but now she had a tiny fawn with her, still …

To Everything There Is a Season…

To Everything There Is a Season… Timing, they say, is everything. A moment too late, a moment too soon, and you can completely miss out. Doing the right thing, but at the wrong time, is often no different than doing the wrong thing. As a photographer, I’ve learned to …

Remembering Walden

Remembering Walden I’ve long been an admirer of Henry David Thoreau. One of the keenest observers of the natural world ever to put pen to paper, Thoreau has a great deal to teach us about our relationships – with nature, with one another, and with ourselves. I first became immersed …

Tales from the Field…

Conservation work – protecting Special Places – doesn’t just happen by itself. It takes a lot of hard work and perseverance. It takes a lot of miles traveling on the back roads of our great country. And sometimes it takes a little creativity. Here, Bill Turner tells of one creative …

On Gardening…

This blog is written with unreserved apologies to all my family and friends in Ontario and Alberta and other places across the country eastward of the Fraser Valley – i.e. all those places that are beyond Hope (sorry, couldn’t resist – just a little wet coast humour). But it’s the …

Being Away and At Home at the Same Time

When you think of the micro-community of family and how we live within it, it is my feeling that each of our personal stories become the tread or the fibre of its sustainability. A shared family, landscape and community are, for me, the three main characters in the building of …

There are places I remember

There are places I remember, all my life… John Lennon I heard Bob Dylan’s iconic song Mr. Tambourine Man playing on the radio the other day (thank you CBC!), and it triggered a memory, immediately transporting me back to a very special place and to a moment, …

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